Human Services

This ASPE Research Brief summarizes findings from a project examining the income and employment experiences of single mothers who left poverty. Nearly thirty percent of single mothers who left poverty were able to stay out of poverty during the next two years. These single mothers tended to be older, with older children.

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in Privatized Child Welfare Systems Topical Paper #3 March 2008

The Examining Relationships in an Integrated Hospital System research project with RTI explores whether an organizational link between a Medicare hospital and a Medicare post-acute care (PAC) setting, such as a long term care hospital, inpatient rehabilitation facility, skilled nursing facility, or home health agency, increases the likelihood of transfer to a Medicare PAC setting.

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Final Report March 2008 Submitted by: Christopher J. O'Leary and Kenneth J. Kline W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

  The Greenbook Initiative Final Evaluation Report Final February 2008 Prepared by: The Greenbook National Evaluation Team ICF International 9300 Lee Highway Fairfax, VA 22031

This brief summarizes key findings from several important fatherhood initiatives that were developed and implemented during the 1990s and early 2000s.

BackgroundA cornerstone effort of the increased focus on chronic homelessness was the development of the Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness (CICH), an innovative demonstration project coordinated by the U.S.